Top federal prosecutor in Washington says his office will pursue all gun cases, memo shows

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Federal prosecutors in Washington, D.C., were ordered on Monday to pursue every firearms case referred to them and to seek pretrial detention against every person charged with such an offense, according to an internal memo seen by Reuters. The directive, from President Donald Trump's interim U.S. Attorney Ed Martin, is part of a new initiative he called "Make D.C. Safe Again." "We will flood the federal district court with cases - to make our City safe," Martin wrote in an email accompanying the new memo.